Boyhood memory inspires World War II research

Thursday, January 5, 2006

In November the Vernon County Historical Society received the following letter from one John Meurs, of a place called Rueti, Switzerland: "When I was a 9-year-old schoolboy living in Nazi-occupied Holland a B-17 bomber of the 8th U.S. Air Force crashed behind our house in the village called Apeldoorn. That was Nov. 26, 1944.

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